Anti-DEI or Just Segregationist?

Caitlin and Trent join Associate Professor Victor Ray to talk about DEI. What is meant by DEI depends on who is using it and what they’re trying to get done. Victor explains the history of DEI as a set of legal standards that insulated companies from accusations of discrimination, designed from the start to avoid upsetting the exact people who are now trying to purge the upper levels of every institution of anybody who isn’t white, straight, cisgender, conservative, male, middle class. They chat about some of the themes of anti-DEI opinion pieces and legislation, and they discuss how antipathy toward DEI exposes a sense of entitlement not to have to consider the perspectives and experiences of other people.

Resources:

Victor’s article

Victor’s book

Mary BucholtzThe Public Life of White Affects

Jennifer Mueller’s work on white ignorance

Why DEI Has No Place at Stanford

What DEI Threatens isn’t Merit, It’s Monopoly

Policies to assist financially were racially unequal

DEI laudable but goes too far

NY Times on Trump’s First 100 Days

Steven Pinker on Hallucinating Bigotry

Steven Pinker on DEI as Unaccountable Bureaucracy

Company Towns

Presidio Park Freedom City

Jamelle BouieDEI repeals in practice are purges